Opening Word 2003 document from sharepoint site in word 2010.

When using sharepoint services with word 2003 on an XP machine, everything works fine. We bought some new computers where we now have windows 7 and office 2007/2010. These work perfect too. Even the 64-bit computers.

We are very happy with the new office version, so we decided to upgrade the entire company. As a test, we upgraded 1 PC. But this is not working. So we upgraded office, later we reinstalled it. But nothing helps. This is the problem: I surf to the document
click it to open it, and then Word hangs. "contacting server". This is not always the case, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. This even with the same document.

We would really like to upgrade to office 2010 entirely. But we're not going to buy licences we cannot use. Anybody got a solution?

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We are using SharePoint Portal Server 2003, and everything worked fine until we started using Office 2010. When document is placed in document workspace and updated by Office 2003 or 2007, it is possible to use "publish to source location" to publish this
document from document workspace. But when this same document is udated by Office 2010, publishing to source location is no more available.

I went thru menu's javascript source code and page source code (document workspace) and find out, that after updating by Office 2010 a SourceURL atribut is missing. It looks like the office 2010 makes this file lost track of its own source.

<label id="message" class="WACStandardDialogLabel">I have provisioned a SharePoint 2010 Server (RTM: 14.0.4762.1000) with Office Web Apps.</label>
<label class="WACStandardDialogLabel">It is a single server with a separate SQl 2008 Standard server.</label>
<label class="WACStandardDialogLabel">I have seen that there were some issues in site that were configured with a port. The Web Application I am having issues with is running on a port and is extended on 443 as well.</label>
<label class="WACStandardDialogLabel">I can view PPTX but Word docx files can't be viewed. The word docx files howerver can be edited in the browser.</label>
<label class="WACStandardDialogLabel">I get the following error when I try to view a word file in the browser:</label>
<label class="WACStandardDialogLabel"></label> "Word Web App cannot open this document for viewing because of an unexpected error. To view this document, open it in Microsoft Word. Error Id: 7f644fec-c2d7-4387-b280-31a4647afea1, 20100509213834 "
I am seeing an error in the event log that identifies the Application Service account (that includes the Word Viewer Service) can't access the portal site collection database. -I am using the appl

I have a newly installed Sharepoint Server 2010 (say,
http://spserver/) somewhere on our LAN on Windows Server 2008 R2. And I am working with Word 2010 on my Windows 7 machine. I have created a Document library somewhere in a subsite of the Sharepoint server (say,
http://spserver/subsite/doclibrary)

Now, working with Word 2010 I want to simply save the document that I'm working into that document library Doclibrary. I go to Word 2010 backstage... and can't find anything there.

1) Save As? It only shows my file system...

2) Save & Send? I see there Save to Sharepoint. But Browse for Location button gives me nothing. If I press Save As here, I just get my file system again.

What should I configure on Sharepoint server or in my machine, so that I can save to my doclibrary with as few clicks as possible, just like I always did with my local file system.

I need to import 700 Word docs (2003 & 2007) from Windows Server 2003 into a SharePoint Server 2010 library. I only have a test server to work with right now and want to do as much pre-work before we launch the actual
server.

My goal: When we launch the shpt server, import all docs into a library so that columns propagate with metatdata automatically.

I'm not sure what the best approach is...

Can I can open each doc and add custom properties (maybe with InfoPath) to import as metadata, then import managed metadata through the term store tool and have it associate with the manually entered custom properties? I don't fully understand
managed metadata, which might pose a problem. And before I start importing terms, I thought I should find out if I've completely misunderstood how taxonomies work.

Or I have an excel spreadsheet with info about each doc in columns that can act as metadata. I could upload this as a list then associate each doc with the list. But it seems wiser to enter the metadata into the documets.

Is it possible to update my docs in advance so that uploading goes smoothly? I have help now for data entry that I won't have later.

I have no resources to spend on tools, and have to figure out and build this&nbs

The first time a document is opened it's fine, opens in just a few seconds.

Subsequently, there is a long delay (about 20 seconds) in the "Contacting server for information..." step.

This happens to all users and all documents, each one will open fast the first time then slowly the second and subsequent times (until, we think, the app pool is recycled - there is no schedules iisreset/reboot).

We have installed Sharepoint 2010 and Office Web Apps on a 64-bit Windows 2008 server. Excel 2010 files can be collaborated among different users (i.e. user status bar is showing the number of users accessing the Excel file) when the file is edited using
Edit in Browser option. However, we cannot get Word/PowerPoint 2010 files to collaborate in the same manner (i.e. no user status bar).

Does the collaboration feature work for Word/Powerpoint 2010 using Office Web Apps or it is available for Excel/OneNote 2010 only?

If collaboration is also available for Word/PowerPoint 2010 using Office Web Apps, any ideas why Excel 2010 works for us and not Word/PowerPoint?

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We have a document library on a site created off of the Report Center site template. We uploaded a Word 2007 document with the word zebra in the text. Using the search bar at the top of the page we selected This list: Our document library and searched for
zebra. We received no results.

We tested the same thing on another site (site template Team site) within the same site collection and search worked fine.

Does the Report Center search function differently then the search functionality on the Team site?

Using the Open XML SDK 2.0 in combination with Word Automation Services enables many scenarios that are difficult when using only the Open XML SDK 2.0, such as repagination, conversion to other document formats, or updating dynamic content in documents.

This article describes a rich document assembly solution that takes Word 2010 documents, Excel 2010 documents, and PowerPoint 2010 documents and merges them together to form a final report in Word. It does all of this from a SharePoint 2010 Web Part.

Hi All,
How to use / access the versiondiff.apsx feature ? I'm using SharePoint 2007 SP2 Enterprise but somehow i cannot use that features like in this website said: http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/Standards/BetterSoftwareSuggestions/SharePointTeamServices.aspx
for example:
here's my document library - http://mossdev01/Correspondence/Forms/AllItems.aspx
Diff - http://mossdev01/Correspondence/versiondiff.aspx --> FAILED
404 ?
Any kind of help and suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Albert/* Infrastructure Support Engineer */